The School of Art and Design is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and ambitious design practitioner to join our team of academics delivering programmes in Interior Architecture and Design.
The successful candidate will contribute to teaching and learning on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and collaborate with colleagues across the wider suite of design disciplines taught in School. Applicants should demonstrate a wide range of design experience, with evidence of engagement in the education context or supporting learning in industry settings. Bringing discipline-specific digital skills expertise (e.g. vector works, CAD, Adobe) as well as well as industry experience, this role is essential to developing student capabilities against the course-related graduate attributes framework.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate high level digital fluency and a continuing engagement with professional, scholarly and pedagogic development. Those without a teaching qualification will be required to undertake Coventry University’s PGCHE or secure a HEA fellowship.
As a Teaching Fellow post, this is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in an academic career. Experience of teaching students within a HEI or mentoring within a professional setting would be advantageous. The role comes with opportunity for progression and scope to take on more responsibility within the team which may include areas such as curriculum development and quality assurance.
Coventry University is committed to providing our employees with the very best opportunities for both career and personal development. We offer a wide choice of development and training courses to all staff as well as generous holiday allowances, pension and flexible working options.
The School of Art and Design is an internationally recognised, award-winning School, with a tradition of innovation since 1843 and our alumni inform, create and shape the world around us. The School is a vibrant environment which embraces innovation in teaching, research and professional practice and offers exciting undergraduate and postgraduate courses including, automotive and product design, fine art, illustration, interior and graphic design, fashion and architecture.
The School of Art and Design is part of Coventry University’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities – a vibrant community of scholars, researchers and practitioners with a global profile and a heritage of quality built up over 150 years. We believe that arts and humanities have a transformative effect on our lives and that critical thinking, creativity and innovation produce solutions for some of the world’s most deep-rooted social and cultural problems. Our schools promote distinctive and innovative approaches to their disciplines, facilitating collaborative working and high levels of specialism, supported by excellent resources in response to the challenges of increasingly complex future workplaces and Creative careers.